Blog Giveaway!

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Ethel Oliver

I discovered a beautiful antique photo of an actress from the early 1900s on Flickr this morning and knew I just had to draw her.  With kind permission from the owner of the photo I set about drawing her in graphite pencil, this is the result.  I'm really pleased with it.  This is the first time actually that I have drawn a portrait in graphite, I've used charcoal a few times and I think now I prefer graphite.

Pet Portraits Diploma

Very excited to report that I received my course material from the London Art College and I have now commenced the Pet Portraits Diploma!  Typically it takes students 1 year to complete, I think I may be a bit quicker than that but we'll see :)  Here is one of my first assignments that I am planning on submitting.  A pug dog in graphite pencil.

New Website!

It's been a while since I posted on my blog.  I now have a new website hosted through Artspan.  Please visit at http://www.catgabrielart.com.  I hope you like it.  It took me many hours to set it all up and I'm really happy with it, easy to maintain too.  If you are interested in joining my mailing list, please click on "Notify me of new art by this artist" link that can be seen at the bottom on each page of my website.

Eastern Rosella (again!)

Spent all afternoon drawing another Rosella.  This time on good quality watercolour paper.  This is the result!

Eastern Rosella

Preliminary sketch and colour study of an Eastern Rosella.  These are my favourite birds and I'm lucky enough to get them in my yard sometimes.  I did this with watercolour pencils in a sketchbook but unfortunately the paper didn't handle the water very well, so I'll be doing another version of this soon using proper watercolour paper :)

The Nest

I should be working on my canvas but had this idea for a new drawing.  I'm calling this "The Nest".  Pastel pencils on pastel paper.